Health & Sex
1. What Is HIV?
“HIV” stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
Many people also refer to HIV as the “AIDS virus.”
HIV lives in the blood and other body fluids that contain blood or white blood cells.
2. HIV and AIDS
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which the immune system begins to fail,
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The GayBombay Special Sunday Meet on Prevention, Testing and Living with HIV at Ghatkopar on 6 December 2009
Stop! Wait! Don’t delete This invite thinking this is just another HIV Awareness and Safer Sex lecture GayBombay is organising on the occasion of World AIDS Day and that you know it all.
Or are you thinking it can’t
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World AIDS Day
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
World AIDS Day, observed December 1 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. It is common to hold memorials to honor persons who have died from HIV/AIDS on this day. Government and health officials also observe the event,
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From The Times
A critical camouflage mechanism that allows HIV to hide from the body’s defences and foil immunisations has been rebuilt in the laboratory in research that could transform the prospects for an effective Aids vaccine, The Times has learnt.
The advance by British scientists should allow them to turn one of the virus’s great strengths
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Am J Psychiatry 1981; 138:210-215
Copyright © 1981 by American Psychiatric Association
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The diagnostic status of homosexuality in DSM-III: a reformulation of the issues
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In 1973 homosexuality per se was removed from the DSM-II classification of mental disorders and replaced by the category Sexual Orientation Disturbance. This represented a compromise between the view that preferential homosexuality
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There’s something GB has been wanting to do for some time and now in the run up to the meeting on Living with HIV its just taken shape. It’s a separate forum for gay guys from Bombay who are positive. (We thought of starting it as a list like GB, but really all the today
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